Item #12834 TO ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS. Thomas? Cooper.

TO ANY MEMBER OF CONGRESS.

[New York: Day & Evans, Printers, Chatham Square, corner of Mott street, 1831]. 8pp, caption title [as issued]. Disbound, light wear, toned with occasional spotting. Good+.

American Imprints and Turnbull, recording this title only with a South Carolina imprint, attribute authorship to Cooper. Dumas Malone's book on Cooper is evidently the source of the attribution.
Cooper calls Congress's ban on Sunday mail deliveries an illegitimate clerical attempt to dominate the Nation's political decisions. "The clergy are a class of men, who, in direct contradiction to their master Christ, ordain the observance of forbidden practices, that they may live in ease and luxury by this gross and manifest imposition. Sunday is their day of labor; of earning money; but they forbid any one else to do so."
Sabin 95890. Turnbull 230, AI 6695, and OCLC record only South Carolina imprints. Not in Cohen. Item #12834

Price: $275.00

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